Tristan Linnell's presentation on the Lazarus IDE that was presented at Barcamp Canterbury 2011.

1. Cross-platform native development with Lazarus. Tristan Linnell [email_address]

3. RAD IDE, similar to Delphi.

4. ”Drag and drop”, event driven design.

5. Cross-platform: Win, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, Win CE... ”Write Once, Compile Anywhere”.

6. Multiple Widget Sets: Win, QT, GTK, Carbon...

7. Produces standard executables, shared libraries and object files.

9. Cross-platform.

10. Written in FPC (itself).

11. Supports multiple dialects (Object Pascal, FPC, Delphi, Turbo Pascal, Mac Pascal...)

12. Many built-in functions in the Run Time Library (RTL).

13. Lazarus

15. Collection of standard and advanced controls.

16. Abstracts away the Widgetset's and OS's APIs.

17. Provides extra functions for cross-platform development, minimising use of {$IFDEF} s

19. Functions, eg to find the location of the settings directory: GetAppConfigDir():

20. /home/tristan/.config/project1/

21. C:ocuments and Settingsristanocal Settingspplication Dataroject1

22. /Users/Tristan/.config/project1

24. Tbutton:

25. Linux (GTK) Windows Mac OS X (Carbon)

26. App Architecture

27. LCL Architecture

29. Linux (GTK2)

30. Linux (GTK2)

31. Windows

32. Windows

33. Mac OS X (Carbon)

34. Mac OS X (Carbon)

37. Forums

38. Tutorials